Our schools partake of our communities, so the broader life challenges facing students do not sit benignly outside the classroom door, waiting for the final bell to ring: instead, they follow students throughout the day.

A society with the "ties that bind us" made of voluntary associations and agreements is a far superior, happier, honest, emotionally mature, wealthier, and moral community than one where the ties are hierchical obligations and benefits -- however benignly or liberally decided. the progress of political/economic instutitions through time is one of experimenting, faultering, and finding those which organize activity and thinking with less coercion.

Dubai prides itself on being what is benignly called “business friendly”; in point of fact, the gleaming new city on the Persian Gulf has a reputation as a modern Casablanca, where anything goes in terms of deals and dealers.